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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. In countries without proper waste disposal, untreated sewage is a factor. The process introduces salts into the waste stream, which are detrimental for downstream waters. He was 19 when he died. So does fossil fuel combustion.

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In Memoriam: Former Sen. Mary Jo White, Republican Chair Of The Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee

PA Environment Daily

She also served on the Wild Resource Conservation Fund, the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee, the Environmental Quality Board, and the PA Commission on Sentencing. She held this position through the 2005-2006 Legislative Session. For the 2001-2002 Legislative Session, Sen.

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Starting with a Messy Slate: The Role of Environmental Law in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake

Vermont Law

While pre-earthquake regulations, such as land and water use and pollution controls were still not effective, Haiti still had some legal framework through the Ministry of the Environment. Furthermore, in 2006 the provisional president, Boniface Alexandre, issued a Decree of Environmental Management.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v. United States. Written comments are requested on or before Dec. 3, 2021.

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